Elva Lai is a fine art artist. Her work examines the possibilities and searches for sensitivities inherent in the modality of photographic images. The actual artwork ranges from drawing, installation, artist book, poster to flyers.

​Elva received her education internationally. She studied in Germany, the USA and Hong Kong and Singapore respectively. She participated in art festivals and received awards for her art projects. She is the winner of The Landskrona Foto and Fröfabriken Creative Space Residency and had her solo show in the Landskrona Foto Festival in Sweden. She was also awarded the Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize and Freeman Creative Prize.
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Elva lives and works in Hong Kong.
CONTACT:
☞ﾟhereiselva@gmail.com

Solo Exhibition​

EMOTION DICTIONARY​, JCCAC, Hong Kong
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FREEDOM SWIMMERS
Artist Residency in ODRADEK, Brussels, Belgium

FREEDOM SWIMMERS
MZIN, Leipzig, Germany

FREEDOM SWIMMERS
Landskrona Foto Festival, Landskrona, Sweden

“How about the other 80% you forgot?”
 Cheng Ming Building, New Asia College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

“Sorry, it’s fragile”
Artify Gallery, Hong Kong

Selected group Exhibition

  1. Charming Tastes and Fragrance: Literature x Visual Arts Exhibition (Extended show), The House of Hong Kong Literature Limited, L0 Gallery, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre (JCCAC), Hong Kong
  2. Charming Tastes and Fragrance: Literature x Visual Arts Exhibition, The House of Hong Kong Literature Limited, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong
  3. Ways of Surviving through Accelerated Mindfulness, 1a Space, Hong Kong
  4. Composing Stories with Fragments of Time,
  5. Works by Kurt Chan, Annie Wan, Francis Yu, Luke Ching, Angela Su, Lau Chi Chung, Carmen Ng, and Elva Lai, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong​
  6. Operation Grenze,Ausstellungsprojekts in der Gedenkstätte Deutsche Teilung Marienborn, Germany
  7. Ausstellung der Klasse für Installation und Raum, Galerie bipolar, Leipzig Germany
  8. Frühlingsrundgang Spinnerei, Open studio:studio in the hall 18 , Spinnerei, Leipzig
  9. C.A.R.contemporary art ruhr ​Die Mediakunst Messe (Media Art Fair), SANAA building, Welterbe Zollverein World Cultural Heritage Site Zollverein XII,  Essen
  10. All Day Breakfast, Joint exhibition of Elva Lai  and Szelit Cheung, ACO, Hong Kong
  11. Uncertainties. Asian Digital Art Exhibition (First Edition), LA CASA CHINA, Spain
  12. From 3G to 4G, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong 
  13. Our Beautiful Days, New Asia College Ch’ien Mu Library, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  14. A given moment in somewhere, some people and something, An Exhibition by TSAI Yi-Ting & Elva LAI, a.m. space, Hong Kong 
  15. Out of light, The A. lift Gallery, Hong Kong 
  16. Our 1989-99 Project, Fine Arts Department of CUHK & Taipei National University of the Arts, 8 2/1 gallery, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan
  17. Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong
  18. Trava(i)l, The A. lift Gallery, Hong Kong 
  19. Documentation as Drawing, a.m. space, Hong Kong 
  20. disturbances, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong 
  21. Hong Kong Art Prize Exhibition, Wheelock Gallery, Hong Kong 
  22. <356,955km> , Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong

Education

The Advanced Certificate of Theology, City Harvest School of Theology, Singapore

Meisterschülerin, 
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig Germany
Klasse für Installation und Raum bei Prof. Joachim Blank, 
Class of Installation and Space

Master of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Exchange programme, School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

Bachelor of Fine Arts of The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Artist-in-Residency Stay

Artist Residency in ODRADEK, Brussels,Belgium
The Landskrona Foto and Fröfabriken Creative Space Residency, Sweden
La Galere, Cotignac, France. Supported by Justice Center Hong Kong and Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize

Conference programme

Seminar und Symposium “Über die Grenze”, SS
Institut für Theorie, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig

Capital & Communication: Visualising Chinese Borders in the 21st Century by the Manchester Metropolitan University and the Institute of Creative Industries Design at National Cheng Kung University

Awards​

The Landskrona Foto and Fröfabriken Creative Space Residency  
Freeman Creative Prize
Talent Development Scholarship 2013/14, the HKSAR Government Fund
Reaching Out Award 2013/14, the HKSAR Government Fund
Friends of the Arts of Museum Research Grant
Hong Kong Human Right Art Prize (Justice Center Hong Kong)
Culture Corner Art Academy Fine Arts Award
Cheung’s Fine Arts Award
Y.S. Hui Fine Arts Award
Grotto Fine Art Award
Gaylord Chan Painting Award